Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a figurehead for Europe’s right wing nationalists, saw the election of the New York billionaire as “great news”. “Democracy is still alive,” he said in a message on his Facebook page.

In July, Orbán, the most vocal opponant of the EU’s refugee resettlement scheme, described Trump’s immigration and foreign policy plans as “vital”, and Hillary Clinton’s as “deadly”. He was the first European leader to take sides in the poll.

In the last hours of the American campaign, Trump’s entourage said the true extent of the property magnate’s support had not come through in the pre-election polls and predicted a dramatic victory in the style of the Brexit vote this June.

The comparison did not escape Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, who was the unofficial standard-bearer for the Leave campaign in the British EU referendum.

Germany’s anti-immigration party Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), which made unprecedented breakthroughs in several German state elections in 2016, also sees the US election result as a validation of its own policies.

The Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) hailed Donald Trump’s election victory at first, but the new president could rob the far-right party of one of its main bogeymen that it uses to drum up support: the United States itself. EURACTIV’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

“Donald Trump’s victory is a sign that the citizens of the Western world want a clear political change,” said Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of AfD.

In Austria, where Freedom Party (FPÖ) candidate Norbert Hofer is favourite to win the re-run presidential election on 4 December, the extreme right also welcomed the result.

“The political left, as well as the distant and shadowy elites, have been punished by voters and ousted from power election after election,” said Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the FPÖ.

Belgium’s far right Flemish separatist party Vlaams Belang also interpreted Trump’s victory against all expectations as a precursor of things to come in Europe. “The American election shows once again just how cut off politicians are from the people,” the party’s President Tom Van Grieken tweeted. “Trump’s march is not an isolated phenomenon. In Europe, too, more and more voters want real change. ”

In Greece, neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn saw the election result as “a victory for the forces opposed to globalisation and illegal immigration and that believe in ethnically pure states and a self-sufficient national economy”.

“A big global change is happening, which will continue with the victory of the nationalists in Austria, Marine Le Pen in France and Golden Dawn in Greece,” a spokesperson for the country’s third largest party said.

The election of a populist US president means “the supposedly impossible is possible”, Marine Le Pen said after Trump’s victory. But the French electoral system may stop the National Front rising to power. EURACTIV France reports.

In France, Marine Le Pen responded on Twitter at around 7:30AM on 9 November, before Trump’s victory had been confirmed, with “Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the American people free!”

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Trump won of course and then ? He is not a far right but a Republican and he’s now the president of A republic of 50 states an he has the responsibility to maintain the Integration of North-America and to protect it . What does it change Clinton Trump or if it was Romney. The U.S. campaign is always traditionally harsh and rude but the real life in politics is always different on whats in campaign . the economies in the World must turn and can never be stalled . Trump is a business man and he knows business and negociations has to be done unlike far right which impose restriction and protectionism which lead to economies to stall . If the E.U. doesn’t go well then the U.S. doesn’t go well too. The far right in Europe is consisted to kill the economies and who will win ? I even cannot imagine a french citizens buying a high taxed Audi or BWM thats not their interests as well . France will less exports because of border negotiations in which businessmen really have no interest . Ditto France will fall behind more than a decade behind its technologies comparing to open economies . In fact E.U. Leaders should protect the E.U. and strenghten the Eurozone like Trump should /is doing with America.
Do you think if California became totally an Independent Country would make Trump Glad ? No way because he ‘s committed to protect his Union too and also does the E.U. ! Take in mind if far right rises in the E.U. the it rises in the U.S. as well and again here that’s no one’s president interests .Even the U.S could fall in a revolution coz populism and this again is no one’s interests . The European Council should listen to what’s the founding fathers have been committed to (Winston Churchill era) because that is in Europe’s interests . I can be wrong but I can imagine Trump thinking something different what far right party are saying but you hey must be always polite .

The only truth in that post is the fact you ‘can be wrong’ …………. & usually are..

The important part of Churchill’s much quoted speech:

‘Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations, mighty America, and I trust Soviet Russia – for then indeed all would be well – must be the friends and sponsors of the new Europe and must champion its right to live and shine.’

Wilders and le Pen are traitors that have nothing in common with Trump. Putting the boot into the system is one thing but as an European noted, Trump is a businessman first and there is a solid business plan behind him, to which Wilders and le Pen have no answer. Clinton was going to ratify the free trade deals and ratify the climate treaty. The free trade deal will bring money, he climate deals will cost money. Trump is going to stop both the free trade deals and the climate treaty. The free trade deals are so compromised already that giving them up is no longer a sacrifice but wrecking the climate treaty will ensure the continued exploitation of the otherwise stranded resources. That’s where the money is, and Trump is preparing the ground for it. All Wilders and le Pen have to offer is empty rhetoric and no businessplan to back them up. They hope to rise to power on the back of a popular uprising, but the cost to Europe will be enormous. They are egomaniacs in their own right and hopefully they will lose.

My country’s best interests are a strong democratic EU, plain and simple. The greatest threat to my country’s economy and wellbeing would be a disastrous collapse of the EU, like you and your pals advocate. It’s really not hard to figure out but rational minds are hard to come by these days.

Except of course the EU has created a currency crisis, a migrant crisis, a mass unemployment crisis, an agricultural crisis and a democratic deficit crisis, all done to integrate the member Nation States (which is the European Commission’s only role), all of which is done without consent of the peoples in the EU, so please explain how we would be better off staying in it ?

The truth is the only goal of the EU though ever closer union is to become the USofE, in the past the vast majority of voters across the EU were kept in the dark about it but as Brussels takes more power from the Nation States the voters are beginning to see it for what it is and they reject it at every turn.

I’m sorry, “they are egomaniacs” and Juncker and his club of Euro henchmen are? Or Mutti for that matter. Give me Le Pen or Wilders any day. At least they are grounded in common sense and I for one, hope they win.

The EU is an ideology & you can not be a ‘quisling’ against an ideology, only a Nation State.
The rest of your comment is just the same idiotic remark made by pro Brussels extremists across the EU, I would ask for some evidence from you but obviously you have none.